Every contractor knows what they will and won't accept. Liability caps. Payment terms. Notice periods. Indemnity language. Those positions live in senior people's heads, in old email chains, in a Word document last updated three years ago. Lexilio turns them into a ruleset that checks every contract you receive.
A commercial director sets the position. The contract comes back. Someone reviews it under time pressure, against a deadline that was always going to slip. Three months later a variation lands with a term nobody agreed to, and the only person who would have caught it was on another project that week.
Nothing failed. There was just no system holding the line.
Forty-one percent of the construction workforce is expected to retire by 2031. Every one of them takes decades of judgement with them: which terms to push back on, which to concede, which one cost the business money in 2009.
Most of that has never been written down. It lives in a commercial director's head and leaves when they do.
A playbook is where it stops leaving. Upload the positions, the guidelines, the contract they were happy with, and the judgement becomes something the business owns rather than something it employs.
Upload your negotiation guidelines, standard terms, or a contract you were happy with. Lexilio reads it and builds a structured ruleset automatically. Or write the rules yourself, one at a time.
Incoming contracts are assessed against your ruleset, clause by clause. Compliant, deviation, or missing entirely. Each finding cites the clause it came from.
A scorecard per contract. Which of your positions hold, which have been eroded, and what to push back on.
Most contract AI compares your contract to a market standard. That's useful once. It doesn't know your risk appetite, your insurance position, or the term your MD walked away from a job over last year.
A playbook does, because you wrote it.
Contracts get revised. Variations arrive. Subcontracts flow down terms that don't match what you signed upstream.
On Enterprise, every new document version is re-checked against your playbook automatically. If a counterparty walks back a term you'd already agreed, you know within hours, not at final account.
"Payment terms must not exceed 30 days from valuation date. Pay-when-paid provisions are not acceptable."
"Aggregate liability cap must not exceed 10% of contract value. Uncapped indemnities require director approval."
"Notice periods below 14 days must be flagged. Any provision making notice a condition precedent must be escalated."
Your playbook doesn't expire when the project ends. It gets sharper. Every position you add is one more thing that can't quietly slip through.